openspaceman

Have I missed something, I thought it was going up to 67 by 2028, when I drew my state pension at 65 statistically I could expect to live 18 years. NB I fully expected to continue working till 70 but the boss had other ideas, did me a favour really.

I haven't seen anything relating to inhalation of particulates specific to forestry workers. There is an acknowledged link between inhaling wood or leather dust and nasal/sinus cancer. My felling partner had a tumour removed from the back of his nose, the surgeon says it was likely from 2t fumes but as his dad was a carpenter I'd say the link was more likely wood dust. Two of the 10 or so timber buyers I sold to died of throat cancer. The link is also established with Human Papiloma virus, so don't pick your nose with warty fingers or stick your nose in warty fannies.

You can sharpen them several times on the machine before you need to replace the blades, I use a 4" cordless angle grinder.

Yes, which is why you buy kiln dried or air dry then bring it into the house to stabilise before use, I am not a carpenter or joiner, @Woodworks is.

Yes for that turnover an accountant will only cost around £400 (as long as all the income and outgoings are well collated first)and it's worth that just for the saving in aggravation let alone tax savings they might make.

I'll wait to see what accountants like @Inoff the Red say but you are confusing your gross turnover with profit (aka income) and that £6k is right for a profit of £31k. Your profit was £18k and you have capital allowance on the truck to deduct from that, I'd say the real figure would be nearer £1400 tax Have you paid your National Insurance? Don't miss it.

Yes I have the 7500 for a couple of years now, mostly for my own domestic jobs, from looking at the gearbox I'd say it was the same design as my old Robin engined single sided Barrus one. It seems good though I don't think it cuts as thick stuff as the rough cut Stihls we had at work. Only problem I had was losing the air filter cover when the screw got loose.

Marcus the first time I came across the term it was used for a hot and cold device for creosoting stakes, it was marketed as The Stobster. The broken branch usage seems close to stub.

I can't see this myself, down here it would settle out at 10% at the end of summer or inside the house but unheated it would gain to a bit less than17% wwb. Also I'd want to see a better support than shown, a block under each line of stickers and more weight on the top

For run of the mill stuff local solicitor said their fees would be £250/hour but the initial talk was free. Subsequently she estimated the hours needed to produce a deed would be 1.5 to 2. The final bill was £942+VAT . Each time you ask them something it racks up as does each time they ask you for anything.

I always thought it was a scotish word for stake

Similar to me and I just have, subject to the new bank where I have a personal account allowing me to open a business account and transfer all the money and direct debits. If all goes according to plan I will have free business banking for 30 months which should see out any business transactions from my much reduced working. I was just going to blag it with my personal account except I was surprised to find it is not possible to transfer from a business account so I must gradually transfer any direct debits (credit card transfers, subscriptions etc.) to my personal account over the next couple of years and then close the new business account before fees crack in.

No from what I said above I don't think it wise to burn in a stove because of the effect on the stove but see no problem in burning it on a camp fire at the sea side.

Direct evidence of what?

I have seen websites saying to avoid this as the chlorine from the sea salt can react with the long chain carbohydrates in the wood and form dioxins. I don't believe this as I don't think the temperatures are high enough to split the salt molecule for the chloride ion then to find two partially oxidise benzene rings to recombine with. I can see a route to produce dioxins from inadequate combustion of a chlorinated benzene ring, like PVC or neoprene. I'd like to hear your reason for this? I'd think it unwise to leave the ash from burning driftwood in contact with any metal as the salt will be hygroscopic and salt and moisture acts as catalyst in the oxidation of iron.

If you go to https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/53.32697,-1.98893,18 You can swap between the map and aerial photo and see there is a drain to the overflow from the middle of the dam and the feeder outlet to the canal (the reservoir's main function where one would expect most of the water to leave the dam) the feature between the spill way and this drain is indeterminate. Also note in the aerial photo the water level is above the boat slipway and water is flowing over the weir to the overflow, no other photos I have seen show the reservoir this full but there is no date on the imagery. I just wonder if historically, prior to 1945, there was no spillway and the reservoir was filled more conservatively. Then recently with the demand for leisure boating the decision was made to increase the static level for dry periods and the spillway was added to allow for this. The wikipedia article is interesting and points to the feeder running in by the transhipment building also, I wish I had read this before I tried to deduce it from the maps. Interestingly the first flush of run off from the Toddbrook does not enter the reservoir until the stream is running several inches higher.

I only noticed it then. Incidentally googlearth shows it empty in 1945 (and no sign of water in the canal but it is B&W so hard to tell)and no spillway visible, all the later photos show it at well below capacity with most of the boat slipway showing. Yes they back pump for the Caen Hill flight because there is no water at the top of the flight to make up and I think they had to do this from the beginning with steam pumps. Even with limited pumping the one by me tends to be shut for navigation from June till the Autumn, it was only re opened in 1991 after being closed for 50 years.

I think you mean spillway? The reason is there was ambiguity early on with the word slipway. It was used to refer to a point at the North of the reservoir where there seems to be a boating club and its slipway (I marked it on my sketch as "SLIP"). At this point there is also a weir where water leaves the reservoir and falls into the normal outflow, it seems to fall into the part of the Toddbrook that has skirted the northern edge of the reservoir and then enters the curved outflow channel that runs in front of the dam and on into the Goyt. There are weirs also at the upstream entry to the Toddbook reservoir and halfway to the dam on the northern edge which allow water to divert into this part of the diverted Toddbrook and go directly to the outflow, although trying to interpret the map is not easy.

Here's a quick sketch of my take on this from looking at the map. The Combs and Toddbrook reservoirs (dark green) feeders (yellow) fill the High Peak Canal (canals use a lot of water when boats go through the locks, about 30 tonnes in our local canal as the locks hold two 70ft narrow boats). Because the canals follow the contour and the Goyt is lower than the canal after Whalley bridge it has to be filled from Toddbrook and Combs reservoirs. Eggs has said it is also filled via the Macclesfield canal and the Bosley reservoir which is 25km from the junction with the high peak canal which starts in Whalley bridge about 9km south of the junction. The Fernlee and Errwood reservoirs do not seem to feed the canal but presumably also have the function of controlling flow on the Goyt. The trouble is the maps only show open water so I do not know what any of the reservoirs also serve by underground pipes. So the only ways out of the Toddbrook reservoir are via the feeder to the High Peak canal, the weir at the northern tip and then the overflow that runs curving clockwise in front of the dam and thence into the Goyt and the spillway over the top of the dam which meets the above overflow. Any excess that ends up in the High peak canal ( shown red) flows over a weir and into the Goyt (shown light green) near the start of the canal at Whalley bridge. As the Toddbrook reservoir was full, and following very heavy rain, all the excess ended up in the Goyt, which seems to have coped with it, as I said in an earlier post there was the possibility of holding back water at the Fernlee and Errwood reservoirs plus the Combs reservoir if the Goyt could not handle the excess from the Toddbrook system. So it looks like everything worked as planned except the spillway was damaged when it was over-topped with an unprecedented flow. I can see the spillway was poorly constructed or maintained for the flow that came over it, Eggs asserts this was predictable and attempt should have been made earlier to lower the level of the Toddbrook reservoir via the overflow into the Goyt if I infer his post correctly. My personal guess is that there wasn't much of a void below the spillway slabs prior to it being over-topped and the damage was all done during the surge because the joints between the slabs had deteriorated.

Okay so the Todbrook after it leaves the dam is largely enclosed as it follows the route I suggested, the slipway and spillway take excess to the Goyt.

Yup, even I, a late entrant into the forestry industry, had 17 years under my belt before I was assessed for the old units. Given mechanisation and the gravy train that is NPTC pyramid selling I wouldn't be looking to doing other than management jobs now if at all in forestry unless the employer footed the bill with no loss of wage. Similar to motor bike riding, if I had to progress through A1 and A2 to ride my bike I wouldn't have bothered.

Looking at the map I think it is fed directly from the middle of the dam by a cut running NE alongside reservoir road then under canal street to the terminus of transhipment warehouse. This means the only viable way to discharge was into the todbrook under the dam and into the Goyt. Even if the canal system could take it this the cut and pipe wouldn't have capacity to take much and excess falls into the Goyt at the terminus weir anyway. So the only way to get rid of the excess and not flood the Goyt would be to hold back outflow from the two other reservoirs to the South at Fernlee. Apart from this gazing at the map my only direct experience is climbing and walking some ten miles to the west

Yes but did the dam not have a spillway before or was there an earlier spillway than the 1968 one? Also while I'm asking; is there another outlet and to which canal or does it feed the canal system via the river Goyt? I ask because the High peak canal is higher than the Goyt at Whalley station and it looks like there is a feed to it via a mixture of cut and pipe from the reservoir.

and while we are on that subject; what was there before this spillway was made?